Chapter 18 The Grassroots, the River of Unknown Depth

Yesterday morning, in coordination with the teaching of the grassroots management class, the brigade invited an outstanding student from the third team, that is, the outstanding soldier cadre team, to give a report to the local college student cadres of the first and second teams to impart their experience in grassroots work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

On stage, he introduced himself and said that his name was Li Gaofeng, and he was a squad leader of the communications regiment of the Songjiang Provincial Military Region before he was promoted. After joining the army, he worked hard to improve his communications skills, and after three years of hard work, he quickly became a top training student in his specialty; he won the first place in the communications professional competition organized by the military region, and the division gave him a second-class meritorious service; after fierce competition, he was promoted from squad leader to cadre, and from the rank of soldier to the sequence of cadres.

He imparted a lot of experience in grassroots work to the trainees. For example. It is necessary to train military quality. Outstanding in order to make the warrior oral. It is necessary to care about the lives of the fighters in order to convince the soldiers. It is necessary to comprehend the intention of the superior leader and resolutely implement it, and the leader will appreciate it. Only when we have real talent and practical learning can we develop and make progress.

"In the face of your local college student cadres and their understanding of the grassroots, you are almost a blank slate. Here, I will tell you about the content that the instructors in the grassroots management class will not talk about, and which people determine our fate. I don't think you've heard of it. ”

Platoon Commander Li Gaofeng's words aroused the strong interest of the students, and one by one they sat more upright, their eyes widened, and they waited intently for his answer.

"You might say that the person who decided my fate was, of course, my direct superior! What I do, what I say and think, my direct superiors see it in their eyes and remember it in their hearts, of course, they decide their own fate? However, this is not entirely the case, and in the grass-roots units, it is usually not our immediate superiors who decide our own destiny, but the higher levels, or the upper two or third levels. For example, I used to be a squad leader, so it was not the platoon commander who decided the fate of my squad leader, but the company commander or battalion commander. In the same way, after we go down to the grassroots level, we generally have to work as platoon commanders, and at that time, it is not the company commander who will decide the fate of all of us, but the battalion commander or instructor. Therefore, in our work, we must pay attention to the fact that we must not only satisfy our direct leaders, but also satisfy our superiors and even their superiors. Only when they are satisfied, can we succeed and grow faster and faster. He said meaningfully.

His statement brought a strong shock to the students, which is completely different from what the instructor of the management course said, it is two concepts! Moreover, this is summed up from his own upbringing, not just theoretical, but also proven truth. Platoon Commander Li can stand here and introduce his experience to the trainees, which illustrates this problem.

This afternoon, in order to let the local college student cadres know more about the grassroots level and lay a good foundation for their first post, the college even invited the local college student cadres who joined the army in the 80s to give their explanations.

"Comrades, my name is Sun Jisheng, and I am currently the director of the Political Department of the XXX Infantry Regiment. As a local college student who graduated from the Department of Physics of Longjiang Agricultural Reclamation Normal College in 83, I feel very proud to have the opportunity to share with you my experience of growing up. It would be a great honor if I could inspire everyone! This opening remark increased the resonance and goodwill of the students.

"After graduating from Longjiang Agricultural Reclamation College in 1983, like everyone else, I chose the military camp and chose to join the army as a stage to realize the value of life! After a year of military and political training at a military academy, he went down to the army, first as a platoon commander, and then worked straight up to the current position of director of the political department......

From the experience and lessons he narrated, the students felt that as local college student cadres. To work at the grassroots level, we must be prepared to suffer, we must be down-to-earth, we must work hard, we must endure spiritual loneliness, and we must kick our heads and feet well. We must face up to our own strengths and weaknesses, set an example, transform our knowledge into ability, and cultivate a tenacious will. It is necessary to overcome all kinds of difficulties that arise in the work and bear hardships and stand hard work. On the basis of doing a good job in general work, highlight their own characteristics.

"At present, the organs need cadres who are specialized in writing, literature and art, and who understand high technology and professions. At present, some of these are the advantages of local college student cadres, such as writing ability and scientific and technological quality. Some of them are the weaknesses of local college student cadres, such as military quality and professional quality. We must do our best to overcome our weaknesses in military quality, and at the beginning we must make use of our strong points and avoid our weak points, and then we must make up for our weak points, so that we can go further in our troops. In addition, we should take care of both career and family, and there is no contradiction between the two, and we must not lose our family because of our career, nor can we lose our career because of our family......"

Listening to Director Sun's speech. Yang Wenbin thought to himself, "Compared with him, there is still a big gap in himself." In addition to military quality and experience in leading troops, it is eloquence. Look at how well he spoke on the stage and how carefully everyone listened. In addition to improving one's military quality, one should also talk and practice more, and more importantly, one should have a clear line of thought, a keen ability to react, and the ability to adapt to changes on the spot; this is an improvement in one's overall quality, and in addition, one should also have one's own firm stand. ”

After dinner in the evening, Yang Libin and Pan Liquan came to the district captain's room. The two of them talked to the district captain for a long time.

"District Captain, what do you think of Director Sun's class today? I think he was very practical and very inspiring. Pan Liquan took the lead in opening the conversation and talked about his feelings after listening to the lecture today.

"yes, I think he said it well! What do grassroots really need? What is it like? What Director Sun said is exactly what we need to understand now and what we must experience in the future, and knowing more now will help us clarify our goals, prescribe the right medicine, and avoid some detours in the future. Yang Wenbin also followed his words and said.

"Well, you still know less about the troops. Platoon Commander Li Gaofeng talked about one side, and Director Sun talked about another side. But the actual situation at the grassroots level is far more complicated than the two of them. ”

The district captain took a sip of water, paused, and continued, "In the grassroots troops, it is difficult to manage in some places, and they are all veterans. It is true that they have relatively high military qualities, and besides, they only advocate force. There are some things that you tell them kindly, and they may not listen to them, and they may not have a good effect. At this time, well, some other means may be able to achieve the most effective effect, that is, force! ”

"Huh?" Yang Wenbin and Pan Liquan were taken aback, "Didn't the troops let them be beaten, scolded and corporal punishment?" ”

"Yes, I will definitely not let it, but some soldiers have low cultural quality and have not graduated from elementary school, and they can't listen to him at all when they reason with him. Moreover, he loves to go head-to-head with a newly graduated platoon commander like you, and if he wins him, he listens to you. If you lose, you have to listen to him, and don't think about raising your head in the army in the future. For example, before I went to the military academy, the unit where I used to be a soldier was like this, and the cadres there basically had experience in this area. The people of the other units made up a slip of the tongue for the cadres of that unit, and called 'Click, talk, talk, walk, mouth, piapia'. ”

"Huh? And such a thing? "Neither of them could close their mouths.

"Yes! Moreover, the quality of cadres is also different, some are high and some are low, and some are even morally corrupt. It is indeed not easy for many cadres to abandon their families and careers and work separately from their loved ones. However, some also develop some bad habits, such as alcoholism, gambling, and even eating, drinking, prostitution, and doing everything. So, the army is a melting pot and a big dye vat. It's easy to learn well, but it's easy to learn badly. You have a long way to go! ”

After listening to the words of the district captain, the jaws of both of them were about to fall to the ground.

Since joining the army, I have always received positive education, and what I have seen is positive and inspiring, and when others say how bad the army is, they always start from what they have seen and heard, and try their best to refute it. However, after listening to the private introduction of the district captain, I realized that there are also good and bad things in this.

From their conversation, the two also learned something about the complexity and some of the dark sides of the force.

How to look at these problems and how to deal with them in the future are the most practical problems facing the cadets, because they will certainly encounter similar things after they go down to the troops.

Yang Wenbin remembered the story of "Pony Crossing the River" that he learned in elementary school.

One day, the old horse asked the pony to carry half a bag of wheat to the mill outside the village to grind the flour. The pony ran happily to the mill with the grain, and had just reached the entrance of the village when a small river blocked the way. The pony looked at the rushing river and was a little embarrassed, and then he saw an old cow grazing by the river, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Niu, this river is not deep, can I wade through it?" "Not deep! The water is only up to the calf, you can get through! When the pony heard the old cow's words, he raised his legs and prepared to cross the river, when suddenly the little squirrel in the tree shouted to the pony, "Pony, don't cross the river, the water will drown you!" The other day, one of my buddies fell into this river and drowned! Frightened, the pony quickly retracts his legs and decides to go home and ask his mother. After listening to the pony, the mother said, "Oh boy, don't just listen to others, that's not going to work, you can try it yourself and you'll understand." The pony returned to the river, and was about to go down to the river when he heard a squirrel stopping him: "Pony, you don't want to die!" The pony said, "Let me try." So saying, he carefully waded through the river, and it turned out that the river was not as shallow as the old cow said, nor as deep as the squirrel said.

He felt that the troops should be aware of both its bright and dark sides. We should pursue the light and drive out the darkness. The grassroots river, not only to listen to what the squirrel says, but also to listen to what the old cow says, but also to listen to what the old horse says, but in the end, you have to be like a pony, a trip, to know the real depth.

Whether you are a squirrel, an old cow, or a pony, you have to make a trip, and you will only know after you have practiced it.